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The confession of one man humbles all.

Antonio Porchia

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Antonio Porchia
Age: 81 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 25
Died: 1968
Died: November 6
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Humbles
Confession
Men

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You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.
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Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
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I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.
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You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.
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My bits of time play with eternity.
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When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
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Night is a world lit by itself.
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The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
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My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
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The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.
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Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man.
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Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.
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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.
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